2 comments:

Great commentary on communication in today's world. So sad we seem to be losing the art of conversation not to mention the benefits of human interaction in person - nothing can beat truely being there for a friend and I am sorry but that is just not possible by text or im.

We will try again. Years ago when mobiles were relatively new, I remember watching a couple having lunch together, the woman spent the whole meal on a mobile. I reckon the guy should have just got up and left. Recently I was in a waiting room, and of the dozen or so people there, I was the only one not fiddling with a mobile. And then there are the wankers specking into their ear phones as they walk. Walking is a great time to think. Like your poem says, I wonder when people take time to think. I think people spend too much time recording life rather than actually experiencing it.

Bio

A.J. Langford grew up in a town of 600, somehow ended up in London and now lives in Sydney. Aside from writing, he's a Television Editor, Video Producer and an Aged Care Recreational Officer. He's created short films, music videos, video poetry and directed short plays. Many stories and poems have been published in many countries from the U.S. to Europe, Asia and Australasia.

Books: He has written four small books (see links under Header) and a collaboration with an Italian artist, For Your Pleasure (2015).

He's written seven novels which remain unpublished though plans to release some of them from 2019 onwards.